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I just clicked on an app that was frozen and had given me a notification to say it couldnt download at this time. clicking individually to restart and they continued to download. There was no need to delete and reinstall mine.

what i did was to reset my ipad, deleting all contents and settings. but before that i had sync with my computer or icloud. after resetting, i simply sync with my ipad and everything is ok. from now on, do not update your apps via ipad nor download any apps via ipad. however, if you do so via itunes in your computer, it can be synced with your ipad without any prob. we are all still waiting for apple to quick come out with a patch for ios6.

I reset the phone and the app resumed installing.. I had no probs downloading but every other app would freeze on install.. Hold home button and standby button in together untill black screen.. 4s phone will automatically restart

Hey guys, Just activated my iphone 5 last night and having a great time with it so far. After all my apps installed and my phone was ready to party, I noticed something wrong with the app store.

My apps will not download if I have wifi turned on. I can purchase and install something over 4G, but if wifi is turned on the app sits there at waiting. This means I can’t download the bigger games to my device because they require wifi to download. Any body know a fix for this?

Hi prasanna, I have the exact problem you’ve listed here. Did you figure out a fix for this problem? (I’ve read things like updating the DNS to 8.8.8.8, and other things). Did you find something that worked for you?

I have an iPhone 5. I got a notification saying I had to update 4 apps but now they jus say waiting. I’ve tried resetting phone a number of times and also syncing it to computer but nothing has helped. Any help would b appreciated. iTunes seems to b working as I purchased a song a minute ago

Since I’ve ‘upgraded’ to IOS6 I’m unable to update my apps. When I click on update nothing happens. I’ve tried to remove an app and then re-install – this also does not work. I wonder about the standards of Apple now … why don’t they offer a solution to problems like this rather than all their users having to search the internet for solutions. Not the Apple I used to know!

I spent 4 hours today trying all of the suggestions online for my similar problem—no way to delete or reinstall 19 apps on my IPAD2 since IOS6 update. Apple’s response: “You would have to pay $300.00 over the next 3months for Apple to spend 20 minutes installing software to fix the problem!!!!!” What do you all think about that????

I’m having this exact problem on my iPhone 5. Apps were installing fine. Now they just say “waiting”. I delete, reboot, reinstall, and they continue to wait.

Also of note, these very same apps that will not reinstall, once I’ve deleted them… They don’t show up in the app store with the button that says “free”. The button says “install”. That’s different from any other App in the App Store regardless of whether or not the app is still on my phone or not.

Thank you CongressDJ!! Like the others this was my problem as well. Seems a “free” Christmas album I received had hung on the first song but as soon as I tapped it in iTunes to get it downloading again, that started clearing my app updates backlog. Thx heaps!

I was able to fix this problem for myself. If you going to the iTunes app on your phone, and hit the “more” tab, You’ll see a list of your downloads. What I noticed, was that I was downloading several hundred songs to my new device via iTunes match – which I use on my phone for my music. One of the songs was hanging, and wasn’t letting anything else on the phone download from iTunes including the other 700+ songs and the apps that I had recently selected to update. Once I deleted the one song that was causing everything to hang, everything else downloaded perfectly As it should, including the apps.

So, the key elements for me were: I have a new device. I use iTunes match. I was updating the thousands of songs onto my phone via iTunes match. Some of the songs, while downloading from iTunes match, seem to hang. Clearing the hanging songs freed up the rest of the downloads.

This is a stupid question, I apologize in advance, but: how do you clear the hanging songs? I have three showing as “waiting”. Do I delete them from the Library on my main computer so that they are not processed any longer by iTunes Match?

THANK YOU CongressDJ – this works just fine, it is just as you said, a hung song and now everything has installed including all my apps! I note your post is dated September 22nd 2012 and it’s now January 03,2013, what the hell is Apple doing about this, NOTHING to date!

I have the same problem .. I update the IOS 06 for the IPad .. Then when I’m trying to update app’s it says your account is not valid for use in Saudi Arabia store, you must switch to U.S, store before purchasing !! Help please :c

I am having the same problem as you except mine says..Your account is not valid for use in the U.S store. You must switch to the Australian store before purchasing. How do i fix this?? (Using Ipod touch 4th Gen with IOS 6)

I ended up fixing it: Go to the itunes store app on your ipad/iphone/ipod and scroll to the bottom until you see your email and click on it. Then click on the option view your apple id and it should switch to your apple store automatically. Hope this helps.

I had the same problem with the appstore app updates freezing in ios 6. My solution to fix it:

I closed all apps running in the background (dubble click home button, press/hold app icon, press close button). Be sure to also close the appstore app itself. Then everything did update the way it should…

Was having the same issue as most here are. I had to close any apps running in the background (except the stuck apps, as mentioned, you cannot close them), and then attempt to launch each app that was stuck individually, which got them to download and install properly. Seems this method manually triggers the app to download the update it was waiting on.

I have the New IPad and had exactly the same problem after updating to IOS 6 . Under whelmed… I double clicked home button, held the first app button and got the Minus sign. I closed all of the Apps in the bottom toolbar and updated them through ITunes .. not an auspicious start to IOS 6.

I have in my house 5 Ipods of various ages, 4 IPhones , 3 ipads and a mackbook pro so I guess you could say I am an apple fan but seriously considering replacing the IPhone 3GS for non apple as the Iphone 5 is nothing more than a taller 4S – not worth the wait and getting disenchanted with Apple . cant say i am impressed with the reviews of Mountain lion either … whats going on at Apple ?

I could download the apps and update the apps. I have the problem that when i open ANY app on my phone including email and safari that it closes down after 10-30 seconds while i am working in the app. Every app is doing this since i installed iOS 6.

I had this update freezing in “waiting” state too. I guess here is how it happens: unlike iOS5 this new iOS6 doesn’t allow multiple app downloads. So when you press “update all” for example they start downloading one by one with each app waiting till the previous one starts installing. So some apps (or songs) do really freeze, and when they do, everything after them freezes, since they are waiting for the first one to download. Ater installing iOS6 i successfully downloaded many apps, and then one got stuck and i could no longer download anything afterwards. Solution was: 1. Closed all apps running 2. Reboot the device 3. After reboot iOS said “was unable to purchase “NAME OF THE APP” and X other items, try again later”. This is how i found which app was the first one to freeze. 4. Deleted this exact app and everyting else updated just fine.

If an app strucks while updating, tap “Done” in the Alert msg displayed, then

Goto AppStore -> Then Update Tab -> Tap the icon of the app to get into the Details page of the app -> Tap the icon there again -> U ll b directed to that app in your device -> Tap the icon again -> U can see the network activity indicator animating at the StatusBar and the App Name ll b changed to “Waiting” and then “Downloading”.

Dear all Recently I’ve update my mob with your new iOS 6.after updating the software I’m unable to purchase any apple applications.when I click the application it show blank screen.previous way of browsing the application was much more better.furthermore when I need to check an application (reviews and brief of the application)it doesn’t show any thing at all.kindly help me.

Dear Recently I’ve update my mob with your new iOS 6.after updating the software I’m unable to purchase any apple applications.when I click the application it show blank screen.previous way of browsing the application was much more better.furthermore when I need to check an application (reviews and brief of the application)it doesn’t show any thing at all.kindly help me.

Hi I found this issue occurred when I told the App Store to update everything at once. To fix, turn off wifi, restart your iOS device and upon restart the device. It will then tell you it cannot complete your purchase. Simply go into the App Store again and update your apps one at a time. It should work then. Cheers, Tory Idiotboxradio

Hi, I have a different problem since I installed IOS 6 on my 3GS. When I try and install an app, I’m asked for my apple id, and after I enter that it looks like it’s installing but nothing happens. In order to get new apps now I have to download them onto my PC and then sync with the phone. Anyone else experienced this, or any ideas how to fix it?

Problem is, the apps weren’t even showing up, just number balloon on icon telling me how many needed updating.

Sooo…

In case anyone else ever has the problem (and lots and lots on the interwebs *are*), in App Store i selected a category, hit “see all” and went all the way to bottom, clicked on my appleID (directly beneath “redeem”; on next page, I clicked on my ID and typed the password in (twice).

I am having the same issues after the upgrade but I can’t access anything apple including their web site on anybif my many apple devices. I am also unable to download books from Overdrive. Surprisingly when I took my devices to work they worked there but not at home on my wifi which is where I had upgraded from. I have an an apple user from the onset but never ever have seen this before! Please help. I tried resetting my network and logging out of my iTunes account. I can only type this because I am using my 3G network rather than my wifi. By the way I can use my wifi for non-apple related sites. Weird!

Found out that my updates were waiting because last night I started downloading a large playlist from iTunes Match and for some reason it was stuck on a song. So before you delete your apps, check the Downloads tab in the iTunes app, it seems apps wait for your music/videos/podcasts to download.

I also had this issue with my new iPhone 5. I followed the advice to look @ my music sync downloads and see if they were paused and therefore causing my apps to look frozen in the “waiting” stage. This indeed was the problem. I went to iTunes -> updates -> purchased -> and touched the paused songs to begin syncing them again. It took overnight, but once they were all downloaded, my apps installed correctly. Hope this helps someone else!

I just went to the app that was stuck. Clicked it as if I’m opening it, and the download starts over. I also noticed this problem if I had a song that was downloading and it got stuck, then my updates would fail and appear frozen. Check both spots and you should be ok.